My name is Chris Dixon. I’m a white, middle-class, cisgender man originally from Anchorage, Alaska, on Dena’ina territory, which I still regard as my home. I devote my time to homemaking, activism, writing, editing, and teaching. I’m a member of Punch Up Collective, a columnist for Canadian Dimension, and an advisory board member for the activist journal Upping the Anti. I live in Ottawa, Ontario, on Algonquin territory, in Canada.
I’m a longtime anarchist with a deep commitment to collective struggles for liberation, and I have been involved in social movements for three decades. I am part of a political tendency that prioritizes grassroots organizing, creative direct action, movement-building, tenderness and care, coalitional work, developing institutions, vision-based strategy, and engaging in dialogue with other sectors of the left, all with the aim of challenging and transforming social relations of domination.
Formally trained as a radical scholar of social movements, I have a PhD from the History of Consciousness program at the University of California at Santa Cruz. My writing has appeared in numerous book collections as well as periodicals such as Anarchist Studies, Briarpatch, Clamor, Earth First! Journal, Left Turn, Punk Planet, Social Movement Studies, and Upping the Anti. My book Another Politics: Talking Across Today’s Transformative Movements was published in 2014 by University of California Press.
I speak regularly across the U.S. and Canada about strategy, movement history, anti-authoritarian politics, and movement-based research. As a happily deprofessionalized academic, I maintain adjunct research professor status in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University, where I periodically work with activist graduate students and occasionally teach.
You can learn more about my history here. For a detailed list of my work, see my CV.
(Photo by Hudson Shotwell)